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Pentagon Officers: We Quit if Trump

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The plans of the next president are personal to the officers of the
Pentagon, who are threatening to quit if The Donald becomes
commander-in-chief.
Republican presidential candidate and business mogul Donald
Trump has repeatedly vowed to build up the U.S. military if elected
president.
But it is not clear he will have the experienced commanders within
the ranks to do it.
In the halls of the Pentagon, there is a different plan afoot for the
Trump presidency. Here, officers are privately contemplating what
they would do should Trump become their commander-in-chief.
And more often than not, they proclaim they will leave.
By 2016 I will have my 20 years in and can get out of here, one
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military official said, referring to the amount of time a service

member needs to collect retirement pay.
Spend enough time with a service member, and the topic of Trump
comes up, always unsolicited. It is far less political than it sounds.
Trumps attack plans for the so-called Islamic State widely known as
ISIShis call to ban Muslims from the United States, his
suggestions that cutting off the flow of information through the
Internet can protect the homelandmany said, are an affront to the
values they vowed to die to defend.
Each one of them took an oath to defend the Constitution, which
protects the freedom of speech and gives Congress, not just one
person, the power send the nation to war. They also swear to obey
the orders of the president of the United States.
In other words: The plans of the next president are personal to
them.
Some said repeatedly hearing Trump and the other GOP candidates
spelling out a plan that is only a more brazenand perhaps reckless
version of the current strategy was not reassuring. They noted
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that for all the talk of supporting the troops, Congress has yet to
pass an updated Authorization of the Use of the Military Force,
which would in effect mark a congressional buy-in to the war effort.
That some of the candidates have said they support a new AUMF,
but have yet to pass one, was only moderately reassuring, they said.
This Daily Beast correspondent has heard such sentiments from at
least a dozen commanders in the past few months. Such
conversations can also be heard at common areasin cafeteria lines
and around lunch tables.
There are fears of being asked to carry out futile war plans that
would bring instability. Almost all of todays commanders are
veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They all know
someone who died in combat; indeed, they may have sent someone
on a mission that ended with death. And because of that they bring
a unique vantage point to lessons learned, from the frontlines where
the cruelty of warfare is impossible to miss. Those who send them,
meanwhile, sit thousands of miles away and learn what is
happening through the filter of distance.
The U.S. military still is rebuilding after a decade of repeated
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deployments and overworn equipment. And the prospect of endless

quasi-war thousands of miles awayeven if its fought mostly by
drones and elite special operations forcesis not tenable, they
argue. These commanders are too focused on recovering from the
last war to hear politicans talk about the prospect of a future one.
And so in the course of conversation, plots of a different kind
emergecontingencies in case Trump really is elected to the White
House.
By 2016 I will have my 20 years in and can get out of here, one
military official said, referring to the amount of time a service
member needs to collect retirement pay.
This is not the country I joined to defend.
I am turning in my papers.
Im moving to a farm.
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The words broadly echoed what flag officers have said in the past
about the reality show star: Personally, I hope no one will be called
upon to serve under a President T I cant bring myself to type the
words, retired Rear Admiral John Hutson, who once served as the
Navys top lawyer, told The Daily Beast in July.
To be sure, those views are not uniform. Commanders deployed
outside the Pentagon said they hear enlisted troops enthusiastically
support Trump. Some describe enlisted service members fighting
with family or other soldiers in defense of the real talk from the real
estate mogul. But the Pentagon is an unusual military posting, one
where it is easier to spot a general than a corporal. And if the divide
between the enlisted and officers is true, the formerthe base of
Trumps military supportare not a well represented population
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within the headquarters of the United States military.

Regardless, such fervor about political matters is a jarring thing to
hear at first from those in uniform; they serve in a part of
government that urges service members to drop any sense of
identity or partisan politics. It is unusual to see someone in uniform
even say whether they are Republican or Democrat, and if they do,
often it is whispered like a secret; the final case of Dont Ask, Dont
Tell, if you will.
Soldiers will spend years with a comrade and never know his
political leanings. Some generals refuse to vote, a signal that they
will obey whoever is commander-in-chief.
But in the course of the 2016 campaign it is clear that the nations
political polarization has seeped into the military, particularly after
Wednesdays debate, which focused on national security.
None of the candidates proposals appeared to gain traction at the
building Wednesday.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he wanted a bombing
campaign on places like Raqqa, SyriaISISs capitalthat was both
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indiscriminatehe used the term carpet bombingand ultraprecise.

You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of
the troops. You use air power directedand you have embedded
special forces to direction the air power. But the object isnt to level
a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists, Cruz said.
Did you hear what Cruz said? How the hell do we do prick point
carpet bombing? asked one service member Wednesday to a
colleague.
Like we can just level a city, responded another.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he would shoot down Russian
jets flying in a no-fly zone that would be in place over Syria under
his presidency.
I remember the no fly zone over Iraq [during the 1990s]. That was
so expensive, one Air Force officer responded about the proposal.
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson suggested that flattening ISIS-controlled
cities would be merciful, even if it killed civilians as it would
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eliminate the threat.

How does brain surgery prepare you to be president? one Marine
asked.
And Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said we need to destroy ISIS in the
caliphate by investing in the military, but didnt spell out how that
would happen.
Still another soldier said, Good luck with that.
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Bryan Woolston/Reuters
The young attorney promised swift justice for Charm Citys killer
cops, but she wound up with a mistrial on her first attempt. This
doesnt look good.
The hero of Baltimore has a big zero on her hands.
Marilyn Mosby, the states attorney for Baltimore, could not get a
jury to convict police officer William Porter in the death of Freddie
Gray. After several days of jury deadlock, a judge declared a mistrial
Wednesday. Now it will be up to Mosby to try her luck again with
Porter, or press on with the cases against five other officers.
Its a huge setback for Mosbys reputation months after thousands
of people demonstrated and rioted in the streets and she stood on
the steps of a courthouse promising to put away these cops. Instead,
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she put on a lackluster case that included, among others issues,

withholding a key piece of evidence from the defense.
I have heard your calls for No justice, no peace, she said to news
cameras earlier in April. However, your peace is sincerely needed
as I work to deliver justice on behalf of Freddie Gray.
It is rare that a police officer is charged in the death of a suspect.
Many, who watched the case of Eric Garner and Michael Brown,
quickly learned how infrequently a grand jury votes to indict
members of law enforcement. The fact that six were indicted and set
for trial in Baltimore was an extraordinary development. However,
getting a conviction in all but the most exceptional cases is highly
unusual.
Mosby had to know this going in.
She and her team had to understand the inherent difficulty of
prosecuting members of law enforcement. After all, she is the
daughter of two retired, veteran police officers, and Mosby says she
comes from five generations of cops. The evidence must be tight
and the charges levied must be spot-on.
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At least in this first case, the prosecutor got both of those things
wrong.
Officer Porter faced a slew of charges, including involuntary
manslaughter, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and
misconduct in office. During the trial, prosecutors were forced to
admit that Gray had a prior back injury that allegedly occurred the
month before he was arrested.
Wednesday afternoon, the 12-member jury was unable to reach a
unanimous verdict and deadlocked on all counts.
Gray, who was 25, sustained what a medical examiner called a
devastating injury to his neck and spinal cord, lingering in a
hospital for a week until he died. The city paid Grays family $6.4
million before the family even sued them.
The 35-year-old Mosbyone of the youngest lead prosecutors in the
countryhas been roundly criticized by police unions for bringing
charges against the officers who they said were being punished for
doing their jobs.
Wednesday afternoon, the 12-member jury was unable to reach a
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unanimous verdict and deadlocked on all counts. Some legal

observers thought Porter would be acquitted altogether.
Ive cringed when other analysts have said, Oh, yeah, theyll be
found guilty in #FreddieGray, attorney Eric Guster tweeted. I
thought differently.
Mosby must now decide whether to retry or abandon the case
against Porter. Five other officers, who were indicted along with
Porter, will stand trial separately. But, the implications of todays
ruling are clear:
No one may ever be convicted in the death of Freddie Gray.
There is no doubtat least in my mindthat Gray should be alive
today. We can debate the legality of his stop, arrest, treatment, and
even the propriety of the individual charges. But, once in custody,
those officers were obligated to ensure his safety. Somebody did not
buckle him into that uncushioned, metal-lined van. Somebody, I
believe, wanted Freddie to have a bumpy ride.
Proving that, beyond a reasonable doubt, is the prosecutors job.
She failed.
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We looked at a day in the life of the magical Kris Kringle himself
versus the not-so-magical but equally spirited mall Santa by the
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numbers.
There are a few enduring questions for skeptical Santa Claus
truthers. For instance, how does he get around the world in 24
hours? Does he actually eat all those cookies and drink all that
milk? And does he have a permit for those reindeers?
According to the North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD), which has been tracking him for 60 years now, Santa has
time to burn off the calories. After all, he doesnt really travel
around the world in 24 hours.
His trip seems to take 24 hours to us, but to Santa it might last
days, weeks or even months, says a NORAD fact sheet, concluding
that this must mean that, Santa somehow functions within his own
time-space continuum.
This might seem like NORAD just cant admit what they dont know
(Santa physics!), but supposing this is true, it still leaves a number
of questions. So, heres a bit of math:
Suppose that all 2 billion children in the roughly 1,568,987,103
households in the world somehow find redemption before the
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holiday season and get their names on the Nice list earning a spot
on Santas holiday itinerary. To reach all those houses, Santa would
have to cover about 196.9 million miles, or the entire surface area of
Earth.
Once Santa and his sleigh are the air, the reindeer do the bulk of the
work. Lets say most of the houses he visits are a story tall. Thats a
15.7 billion-foot climb, but to stack the odds in his favor, well say he
can go as fast as world speed climbing champion Danylo Boldyrev at
a rate of 8.76 feet per second. Very fast, but Santa would still be
clocking in a lot of overtime4.9 million hours to be exact, or 560
years.
Santa theoretically consumes roughly 226 billion calories in
cookies alone.
Working against Santas cross (continental) fit regimen are the
sugary offerings of 2 billion grateful children, which well equate to
roughly 226 billion calories. Factor in the milkwell use 2% and
thats another 244 billion calories, or 470 billion calories total.
How does this, err, heavy caloric intake balance out against the
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benefits of chimney-climbing? With that exercise, Santa would burn

a whopping 4.46 billion caloriesbut still not enough to beat out the
dangers of a few million freshly baked snickerdoodles. The only way
Santa has a chance of being able to fit into his iconic red suit next
year? Hell need to ditch the sled and walk his route which would
take 49 million hours and burn about 20.3 billion calories.
Those are the numbers for the mythsorry, kids, the legendbut
what about the man? Or, more accurately, the men? Every year,
hundreds of people dress up as Santa to bring a little bit of joy into
childrens lives. Santa RG, as hes known in the mall Santa world,
is one of them.
With backtracking and hiding from children with insomnia, Santa
covers about 196.9 million miles, or the entire surface area of the
Earth.
RG is employed through the Noerr Programs, a company that
specializes in dispatching Santas nationwide, and is currently based
in that classic winter wonderland, Austin, TX. This will be his ninth
year as a mall Santa, but his history as St. Nick began in 1981. It
was kind of an accident, I really kind of got drafted into it, RG says.
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But I tell you, the first time some kid came running across the
clubhouse and jumped in my lap and hugged my neck, I was
hooked.
The holiday season can get pretty busy for a mall Santa, with the day
starting around 8 or 9 AM and sometimes stretching until 10 PM. I
give a lot of consideration to my health, RG says. I try to get
adequate rest, eat a good breakfast, take vitamins and minerals and
supplements, and I do some mental preparation usually when I first
get up.
When its particularly busy, RG says he loses count of how many
children visit him every day, but thinks the numbers reach into the
hundreds. He normally takes about four breaks per day to walk
around, about 800 yards (or, roughly 960 steps) to and from the
dressing area on average. Hell occasionally also walk around and
interact with passersby at the edge of the set. All told, a whole day
might involve anywhere from half a mile to a mile of walking (thats
about 2,112 to 3,168 steps), averaging about 100 calories burned
just during breaks. Its a far cry from the official Santas workout,
but RG works just as hard at providing care and attention to the
children who visit him: Except for the break time, RG says, Im
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there in the chair waiting, talking to children.

For RG, who has a background working in child welfare, the kids
make it all worth it. He loves working with them and listening to
their requests. And these days, its Star Wars and Disney
princesses. No surprise there: according to the NPD Group, the
Disney movie Frozen had over 300 different types of toys and sold
made $513 million in 2014. There are 96 different types of Star
Wars toys in the Hasbro Force Friday catalog alone, and most of
those are action figures.
RG has noticed that recently, though, many children arent only
concerned with toys. Rather, theyll ask after the wellbeing of
others. Theyll be asking more for happy Christmas for children
that are less fortunate, RG says, or what really gets me is theyll
ask for their family to be safe and happy and together at Christmas.
Even though a mall Santa might not be putting in the same number
of hours as the real Santa, his work is just as important. And, after
the holidays are over, hell have almost as much work to do to get
into shape for next year.
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Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty
While Rome officials fret over terror and ISIS, fraudsters are trying
to make a killing on the Holy Jubilee by selling fraudulent blessings
and tickets to free events.
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VATICAN CITY The labyrinth of cobbled streets crisscrossing the

famed Borgo Pio near St. Peters Square have always been among
this citys most unholy. It is here where kitsch meets irreverence on
the sacred souvenir market, with items like pope soap-on-a-rope
and bobblehead Pope Francis sculptures for sale alongside Virgin
Mary prayer cards and bedazzled Mother Teresa rosaries.
These streets are also where anti-corruption cops recently
discovered a rocking business in fake papal blessings and other
counterfeit religious relics tied to the Jubilee year of Mercy
inaugurated by Francis last week. The sting operation, dubbed
Jubilaeum, netted more than 1 million fake trinkets in the week
since the event started. Its not just about security for fear of ISIS,
Renato Fisichella, head of the Jubilee organizing committee, said
last week. There has to be security to watch out for peoples
dignity.
The Vatican is especially concerned with the discovery of some
3,500 counterfeit parchments (valued at more than $75,000)
purporting to hold special papal blessingsthey were actually
produced in a makeshift print shop in the back of a souvenir store
near the Vatican gates. The genuine blessed parchments are
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produced inside Vatican City and are only available from authorized
souvenir shops for around $10-$25, with proceeds going to papal
charities. And they actually do contain papal blessings for events
like births, weddings, and anniversaries, written in a fancy typeface
for which the Vatican holds the patent.
Unsuspecting pilgrims who purchased the knockoffs written in a
lesser calligraphic script were even asked to complete a form with
their personal details, which the shifty vendors promised to submit
in the Holy See benediction register in line with the real blessing
procedure. A stack of completed cards was discovered along with
the fakes. Authorities have no idea how many fake blessings were
sold before the racket was discovered. I cant believe anyone would
sell a fake blessing, a shopkeeper selling linen dishtowels with
crosses and the likeness of the Virgin Mary on the Borgo Pio told
The Daily Beast. That is one step too far.
Authorities also discovered more than 500 other religious gadgets
containing unauthorized papal seals being sold as originals, as well
as vendors selling tickets for free events. One shop even sold tickets
to walk through the Vaticans newly opened Holy Doors even
though there is no entrance charge, and there is no one to give the
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fake tickets to once pilgrims pass through the security controls.

Pilgrims who do walk through the doors at any time during the Holy
Jubilee year are granted an indulgence if they are pure of heart and
follow up crossing the threshold with a heart-felt confession. The
holy year indulgences are thought to lessen the load of penance for
sins that have been forgiven and faithful believe they can even
knock off time in purgatory for those who get stuck on their way to
heaven.
Police say they have written nearly 9,000 complaints against
businesses involved in the various rackets, including one in which a
shop was selling medicine promising to cure cancer through divine
intervention. Many of the counterfeit goods are reportedly sold to
stores by either Chinese or Senegalese gangs who run a sort of do-ityourself business in fake holy goods, assembling them as supply
demands.
The Jubilee has been attacked by crooks and fraudsters, said
Italys Interior Minister, Angelino Alfano, when he announced the
results of the Jubilaeum sting operation. And we were prepared for
the contrary.
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The Jubilee has been attacked by crooks and fraudsters and we

were prepared for the contrary.
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The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker discusses his new film

Where to Invade Next, gun violence in America, the Sandy Hook
anniversary, and his anti-Trump campaign.
Trump Tower is, in many ways, a 68-story monument to the
hypocrisy of Donald Trump. The Midtown Manhattan monstrosity,
whose gold entryway sign bearing his name screams off-Strip Vegas
casino, used concrete from a firm owned by the Genovese and
Gambino crime families. It was built by 200 undocumented Polish
immigrants who claimed they were paid meager off-the-book
wages. And if that werent enough, Haitian dictator Jean-Claude
Baby Doc Duvalier, who massacred thousands of his people, used
to be the proud owner of apartment 54-K, while Prince Mutaib bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud, a senior member of the Saudi royal family, owns
an entire floor in the building.
Thus, it was the perfect setting for Michael Moores latest stunt:
Yesterday, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker/provocateur
stood outside the tacky erection with a sign that read We Are All
Muslim. The 61-year-old did so in order to protest the Republican
presidential candidates proposal to ban all Muslims from entering
the U.S. in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting. One of the
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shooters, Tashfeen Malik, likely became radicalized in Saudi Arabia.

A day before, I sat down with Moore at a downtown office to discuss
his Trump sneak attack, as well as his new documentary Where to
Invade Nexta travelogue of sorts that follows Moore as he visits
foreign countries like Italy, Finland, and Norway to observe their
quality of life compared to ours. The film exudes Moores trademark
humor, and has been shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar.
What convinced you to take the show on the road? Were
you frustrated with the quality of living in America?
Why does Slovenia have things we dont? We are the richest
country. We have incredible resources at our disposal. So why dont
we have the things that these other countries have? I wanted to find
out why. The things we think we should havefree universal
healthcare, free university, a different attitude towards
drugshows it working in those places where theyre trying
something different? It seems to be working pretty well. Pretty,
pretty well.
Although some of the countries you visited in the film,
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like Italy, arent doing so well. Italys economy is in

shambles.
Yeah, but were in the midst of 320 mass shootings in the United
States this year alone?
I believe San Bernardino was No. 353. The epidemic of
mass shootings reminds me of your Bowling for
Columbine, which was sadly quite
Prescient. I dont take it as a compliment. I said it to the MPAA
last week when I was appealing the R rating on this film, I said, I
came in here 13 years ago and you gave Bowling for Columbine an
R rating because you didnt want teenagers to look at a school
shooting. And back then it was once or twice a year, and now its
once or twice a month. So how did that work out, not showing our
kids all of these mass shootings?
I dont understand why people are allowed to purchase
assault rifles like the AR-15 that was used in the San
Bernardino, Oregon, and Aurora shootings, or the
Bushmaster that was used in Sandy Hook. These weapons
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are not for hunting or self-defense.

...if they ever showed the crime scene photos of Sandy Hook, that
would be the end of the NRA that nightto see the heads of 20
first-graders blown off.
Its to kill humansthats what theyre used for. The deer are not
armed, so you do not need an assault rifle because the deer are not
shooting back. Theres an absolute conspiracy among the gun
manufacturers and the NRA to have this be the way it is. Everyone
acknowledges that. Its our job to get the debate focused on what it
needs to be focused on. The other day was the three-year
anniversary of Sandy Hook. At the time I said I wouldnt want this
to happen to the parents, but if they ever showed the crime scene
photos of Sandy Hook, that would be the end of the NRA that
nightto see the heads of 20 first-graders blown off.
Seriously, what would happen if they showed the security cam
footage of 20 six-year-olds being mowed down? What do you think
would happen? Because Ill tell you something: That three-year-old
that washed up on a beach in Turkey this summer? That was the
end of that. Every country stopped prohibiting refugees from
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coming in, and welcomed them. They couldnt take it. People
respond to the visual image. What I do for a living has a huge
impact.
In the wake of a mass shooting, the left tends to focus on
guns while the right tends to try and steer the
conversation away from guns by talking about mental
health, even though in the wake of the Charleston
shooting, the GOP shot down the Dems proposed
amendment for the CDC to study the underlying causes of
gun violence.
The shooter at Sandy Hooks dad was the vice president of GE. He
had perfect health insurance. He was seeing two shrinks. So, it
wasnt that he was without mental health help. Theres a bigger
problem here.
A typical argument on the right is, Well, if they were
armed the violence would have been prevented, or greatly
diminished.
I know the answer to it, by the waythe question of, What if they
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were armed? See, life is not a movie. Its very hard to hit somebody
when youre firing a gun and youre an untrained civilian. If youre a
gun owner and youre buying it for protection, you have to go to the
range every Saturday, or every other Saturday. You have to be
trained, and keep training yourself, to be able to use that gun
properly. If youre worried about an invader in your home in the
middle of the night, to wake up out of a dead sleep, in the dark, grab
a gun and think youre going to hit something? Its the nuttiest idea.
Its just plain nutty.
Or theres the rhetoric of Donald Trump. In the wake of
the terrorist attacks on Paris, he said he witnessed
thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering as the
Twin Towers fell. Of course, this is a bold-faced lie. The
footage he saw came from Palestine. We all saw it.
Yeah. It was about 20 people in Palestine. I can see the footage in
my head!
Then, in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, he said
all Muslims should be banned from entering the country.
This type of rhetoric is not helping our cause, but instead
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pulling us ever closer to a global conflict between the West

and the Muslim World, which is exactly what ISIS wants.
I wrote Trump a letter. Im going to see what he does in the debate
tonight. If he doesnt walk it back, Im going to post the letter. Im
also going to go down to one of his buildings, stand there with a sign
outsideI cant tell you whats on it, but it will be goodand have
myself photographed with it.
What are the contents of the letter?
I describe the first time we met in the 90s. We were in a greenroom
for Roseannes talk show, and Trump was afraid to go out on the
sofa with me. And remember this is the 90s, so Im still very
Michigan-based. The producer says, Mr. Trump is very worried
about going out there on the show with you, because he thinks you
might rip him apart. I said, Im from Michigan. All I know about
him is his name is on a lot of things. I said, Do you want me to go
talk to him just to calm him down a little bit? She said, Yeah, Id
really appreciate that. So I go up to him and say, Hey, Im Michael
Moore. She said you were a bit worried about me. You dont have
anything to worry about, were just going out to have some fun with
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Roseanne. He goes, Oh, well I just dont want blah blah. Im

thinking, Man, what a big wuss!
For someone as allegedly self-confident as he, Trump does
seem to be remarkably thin-skinned. Every time someone
criticizes him he lashes out.
All men have estrogen in them. We all have a bit of estrogen in us.
Sometimes, Ive noticed in our gender the guys who have to do a lot
of huffing and puffing, they may be better embracing the female
side of themselves. They may be a little happier. He might be one of
those people.
So, you said you went to the MPAA to contest this films R
rating and invoked Bowling for Columbines R rating.
How did that go?
They also gave Roger & Me an R rating because a little bunny rabbit
got clubbed. When you think of my films, its hard to think R. The
first thing I said to them was, we know from our own research that
the studio will make more money if this is an R rated film, so Im
arguing against our own financial interests here by asking you to
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rate it PG-13. A teenager should not have to have their parents go

with them to watch this. There are some F-bombs, which kids hear
all the time, the nudity is a second and a half and its old people
getting into a hot tub. The violence is Eric Garner being killed by the
NYPD on the sidewalks of Staten Island, which has been on the
news. And we show drug use in Portugal without consequences, or
punishment.
Do you feel its the sourceor messagethats the issue?
That youre being targeted by the MPAA?
If this were released by the Baptist Church, it would get a PG-13. Im
held to a different standard because theyre smart enough to know
that within the filmits not visible, but its there for the whole two
hourstheres a fuse, and the audience is getting angrier and
angrier watching how people get to live in these other countries, and
they know what Im up to. Im up to igniting the population to rise
up and demand the American Dreamnot a dream, but a reality.
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Pentagon Officers - We Quit If Trump Wins

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